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Appropriations releases
2-year budget proposal
Committee overshoots Gov. Johanns' mark
By Jessica Fargen
Senior staff writer
State senators will be looking at some heavy read
ing this weekend - not a new novel or some recent
study, but a 213-page document proposing how the
state should spend $4.7 billion over the next two years.
The Appropriations
NU is asking for $20 million to bring faculty salaries
up to the midpoint of its peers. The university also
requested an additional $ 19 million in salary increas
es for administrators and other university employees.
“In a number of areas, the committee is recomv
mending spending more (at NU) than what the gover
nor recommended,” Peterson said. “Each of those dif
ferences will be scrutinized over the next several
weeks.”
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budget, which called for more
spending than Gov. Mike Johanns
had proposed.
Starting Tuesday, senators will
have 18 days to sort through
Johanns’ and the committee’s
spending recommendations.
For the University of
Nebraska, the committee recom
mended spending about $23 mil
lion less than the university’s
request. NU asked for $783 mil
lion for the next two years. The
committee recommended $760
million and Johanns has proposed
$751 million.
Chris Peterson, Johanns’ press
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Clearly they are
proposing to
spend more than
the governor, and
they don’t leave us
much room for tax
relief...”
Chris Peterson
Johanns’ press secretary
runas ior me university, along
with the state college system,
make up about 17 percent of the
state’s general fund, which
includes taxes such as income tax
and sales tax.
Peterson said the governor’s
main concern with the overall
committee budget was the reduced
potential for property-tax relief.
“Clearly they are proposing to
spend more than the governor, and
they don’t leave as much room for
tax relief as the governor had
hoped,” Peterson said.
Although the budget calls for
more spending than Johanns had
proposed, Peterson said this budget
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tell what items in the committee’s NU allocation the
governor would veto.
The university’s budget, as proposed by the com
mittee, is $372 million the first year - a 4.6 percent
increase. The committee recommended a 4.2 percent
increase for the following year.
A lot of that increase would be spent to bring the
university’s faculty salaries in line with its peer insti
tutions.
Keeping and recruiting quality professors has
been one of the university’s budget priorities this year.
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Johanns wants to limit state spending to about a 3.2
percent increase for the next two years, while the com
mittee set their spending increase at 3.4 percent.
“The governor recognizes that there is more
spending restraint in this budget than there has been in
recent budgets,” Peterson said.
In total, Peterson said, every spending item would
be looked at carefully by the governor and the
Legislature.
“Everything in the budget, including those univer
sity funds; & going to be scrutinized.”
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Earth Day participants
run for cover from rain
By Veronica Daehn
Staff writer
A celebration designed to promote
awareness of, interest in and action for the
environment could have been washed up
Thursday because of the rainy weather.
But organizers made sure that even
though the festivities were moved indoors,
students still had the chance to honor their
Mother Earth.
A flurry of brochures, tie-dyed T
shirts, posters and outdoor climbing equip
ment lined the north side of the Nebraska
Union for UNL’s eighth annual Earth Day
celebration.
Originally scheduled for outside on the
greenspace in front of the union, the cele
bration was forced inside, but Graham
Johnson, Environmental Resource Center
volunteer, said it wasn’t a problem.
“It’s allowed people to get together and
talk more,” he said.
People should gain an increased aware
ness of environmental issues at the event,
Johnson said, and also find something that
interests them among the 30 to 35 booths.
Interest encourages action, he said, and
action is the most important step in helping
the environment.
“We need to make the jump from the
conceptual to the practical,” Johnson said.
“That’s where change begins.”
Paula Leslie, a UNL graduate student,
said the main goal of her Campus
Recreation Outdoor Adventures booth was
to educate people on preserving the land
around them.
“Earth Day is about preserving and
awareness,” Leslie said. “Most people
haven’t thought about how they impact the
Earth.”
Outdoor Adventures teaches people
how to have as little impact on the environ
ment as possible, she said.
Earth Day dates back to 1970, Johnson
said, when books about energy crises and
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Earth Day is about
preserving and
awareness. Most people
haven’t thought about
how they impact
the Earth.”
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population explosion were popular.
From there, the influence of the 1960s
and 1970s migrated to Europe and was the
foundation of the political Green Party that
remains today.
It is more difficult to motivate
Americans to concentrate on the environ
ment, Johnson said, because the effects are
not as immediate here.
The United States, particularly
Nebraska, has ample land and little air pol
lution.
European countries are not as fortu
nate, so Europeans are more willing to
concentrate on the environment, he said.
Promoting awareness and education in
America is important, Johnson said, and
Earth Day is a good way to get people
together.
“People need an awareness that these
things are going on in our community,” he
said. “Lincoln is not this isolated box.”
Each booth concerned the environment
and offered expertise on ways to improve
it.
“It’s a big jump between idea, action
and implementation,” Johnson said. “This
is our contribution to trying to make peo
ple aware. It’s going to be for the good of
their health.”
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